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Bakshi, a Social Studies and Visual and Environmental Studies concentrator, said that his experience with the Aina Arts program, the educational program in northern India last summer, was extremely rewarding...
...context to the public image of Harvard and whether it is possible to include a feminine representation in this picture. Do the architecture, art and statuary over campus, particularly in the Yard, reinforce ideas of traditionalism and masculine superiority? And the most pressing question about Harvard’s visual presentation: what is that weird phallic statue next to Boylston...
Despite its immediate masculine visual connotations, the inscription on the giant slab is even more representative of Harvard’s masculine history than the lewd imaginations of 18-year-olds would believe. It speaks, in Chinese characters, of the leaders that Harvard has produced: “Their noble accomplishments are reflected in the worldwide reputation of our Alma Mater as a seat of learning of the highest standards, in the wealthy of valuable contributions in the wide influence its children have exerted in many lands, and in exalted position occupied by the nation in which it is situated...
Efforts have been made, independent of the college administration, to bring to light women’s visual history at Harvard. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Harvard College Professor and James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History is the author of Yards and Gates: Gender in Harvard and Radcliffe History. She was among the first to speak out against the lack of women’s representation in the collection of portraits at the Barker Center, as well as the confusing Bradstreet Gate...
...don’t know whether some kind of visual representation of women’s history at Harvard is what we need, or something entirely different and new,” Thatcher says. “There is a history and there is a lot of wonderful possibility. As we think about it, does it create a space of equality simply to replicate the old pattern of the University being represented in imposing portraits? Put one or two women up there, does that solve the problem? It probably doesn’t. It identifies the problem...